From life history theory to clinical practice: potential markers of fast life strategy

Currently, there is increasing evidence that early human development mediates the risk of early cardiometabolic diseases and their risk factors in adulthood. This publication considers potential markers of the so-called fast life strategy — a life cycle characterized by a high disease risk, as well as the conditions leading to the formation of such a strategy. In the future, they may allow stratifying groups at high risk of premature death from cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in routine clinical practice and conducting their early prevention.